With preparations for vaccine development and distribution reaching an advanced stage in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a three-city tour on Saturday to take stock of Covid-19 vaccine development work.
The visit will reportedly start at Zydus Biotech Park, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. Modi is expected to arrive at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Airport around 9 am. From there, you will head towards Changodar by helicopter. The Zydus Cadila Vaccine Technology Center is located in Changodar Park, where the pharmaceutical company is developing its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, ZyCoV-D.
From Ahmedabad, Modi is expected to fly to Pune, where he will review the status of the vaccine, including its launch, production and distribution mechanisms. “We have received confirmation about Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the Serum Institute of India on Saturday, but his minute-by-minute program has yet to be received,” Pune Division Commissioner Saurabh Rao told PTI.
From there PM Modi will travel to Hyderabad to visit the Bharat Biotech facility where the indigenous Covaxin vaccine is being developed.
In a recent meeting with senior ministers and other representatives from all states and territories in the union, Prime Minister Modi said that governments at all levels will have to work together to ensure that the vaccination campaign is smooth, systematic and sustained. . “It is not yet decided if there will be one, two or three doses of vaccine. Their prices are not decided either. We have no answers to such questions at this time as there are different people in the world who do. The business world is involved, there is competition between them, the countries have their diplomatic interests, they have to wait for the WHO as well ”, said Modi.
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